Published Work — New Lexicons

BOOKS

London Incognita – Dead Ink Books, 2020

‘A modern masterpiece of the urban wyrd.’
– Sublime Horror

London Incognita chronicles a city caught in the cycle of perpetual decline and continuous renewal: the English capital, groaning under the weight of two-thousand years of history, as seen through the eyes of its desperate and troubled inhabitants.

A malicious presence from the 1970s resurfaces in the fevered alleyways of the city; an amnesiac goddess offers brittle comfort to the spirits of murdered shop-girls; and an obscure and forgotten London writer holds the key to a thing known as the emperor worm. As bombs detonate and buildings burn down, the city’s selfish inhabitants hunt the ghosts of friends, family and lovers to the urban limits of the metropolis, uncovering the dark secrets of London.

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These Towers Will One Day Slip Into the Sea – with illustrations by Maxim Griffin. (2021).

As part of Kickstarter's Make 100 initiative, and working with renowned landscape artist Maxim Griffin, These Towers Will One Day Slip Into the Sea is a new illustrated landscape punk book exploring the windswept and evocative landscapes of Reculver, and its dizzying layers of history and human narrative.

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The White Heron Beneath the Reactor – with illustrations by Maxim Griffin. Kickstarter funded, Summer 2019.

As part of Kickstarter's Make 100 initiative, and working with renowned landscape artist Maxim Griffin, The White Heron Beneath the Reactor is an illustrated landscape punk essay exploring the bleak, otherworldly and captivating landscapes of Dungeness, the effects of climate change and a warming world, our relationship with continental Europe, and the looming fear of apocalypse.

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Judderman (as D.A. Northwood) – published by Dead Ink Books, late 2018. Part of the Eden Book Society.

London, early-1970s. In a city plagued by football violence, Republican bombings, blackouts and virulent racism, a new urban myth is taking hold. Among the broken down estates, crumbling squats and failed projects of a dying metropolis, whispered sightings of a malevolent figure nicknamed the Judderman are spreading. A manifestation of the sick psyche of a city, or something else?

Hollow Shores – published by Dead Ink Books, October 2017

‘Gary Budden has been directly instrumental in raising the profile of psychogeography, new weird and strange fiction within a distinctly British context.’
– Nina Allan, author of The Dollmaker

Gary Budden s debut collection blends the traditions of weird fiction and landscape writing in an interlinked set of stories from the emotional geographies of London, Kent, Finland and a place known as the Hollow Shore.

The Hollow Shore is both fictional and real. It is a place where flowers undermine railway tracks, relationships decay and monsters lurk. It is the shoreline of a receeding, retreating England. This is where things fall apart, waste away and fade from memory.

Finding horror and ecstasy in the mundane, Hollow Shores follows characters on the cusp of change in broken-down environments and the landscapes of the mind.

PRINT (FICTION)

‘Temperance’
– Great British Horror 7: Major Arcana (Black Shuck Books, 2022)

‘What Never Was’
– Reprinted in Best British Short Stories 2021 (Salt, 2021)

‘The Residential’
– Out of the Darkness anthology (Unsung Stories, 2021)

‘Passage Migrants’
– Ambit #241

‘Long Rock’
– Nightscript Volume 6

‘I Precede Myself’
– Longlisted for the 2019 London Short Story Prize

‘What Never Was’
– Confingo 13

‘We Pass Under’
– Uncertainties IV (2020, Swan River Press)

‘The Collector of Games’
– Tales from the Shadow Booth Volume. 4 (ed. Dan Coxon, 2019)

‘We Rip Holes In Their Paper Faces To Give Them Sight’
– The Lonely Crowd

‘Hovering (or, a Recollection of February 25th, 2015)’
– This Dreaming Isle (ed. Dan Coxon, Unsung Stories)

‘Where No Shadows Fall’
– Tales from the Shadow Booth Volume. 1 (ed. Dan Coxon)

‘Breakdown’
– reprinted in Year's Best Weird Fiction 4
(ed. Helen Marshall & Michael Kelly, Undertow)

‘We are Nothing but Reeds’
– Galley Beggar Singles

Tonttukirkko (Annexe) – OUT OF PRINT

‘Breakdown’ – The Short Anthology #2

‘Knotweed’ – Galley Beggar Singles

‘Deadhouse, Marigold Messiah’ – PUSH #20

‘Saltmarsh’ – Longlisted for the London Short Story Prize 2015. Appears in the Upshots anthology.

'Greenteeth' – Black Static #50, shortlisted for a 2017 British Fantasy Award

'Up and Coming' – PUSH 2 anthology (East London Press)

'The Hollow Shore' – Unthology 7 (Unthank Books)

'Brocken Spectre' – Brittle Star #35

'Coming on Strong' – Prole #12

'Mission Drift' – Under the Radar #13

'Ren' – The Lonely Crowd #3

'Gills' – Bare Fiction #4

'Internal Riot' – Boscombe Revolution #2

'To This Day' – Boscombe Revolution #3

'The Restoration' – Fugue: A Collection of Contemporary Short Stories (The Siren)

'The Exhibition' – Connecting Nothing with Something (Influx Press)

'Tautologies' – Acquired for Development By . . . A Hackney Anthology (Influx Press)

'Staples Corner, and How we Can Know It' – An Unreliable Guide to London (Influx Press)

'Yes Sir, I Will (or, The Patricians)' – Rising #63

PRINT (NON-FICTION)

‘Half Concealed Places, or a Particularly Humdrum Uncanny’ – Writing the Uncanny: Essays on Crafting Strange Fiction, ed. Dan Coxon & Richard Hirst (Dead Ink)

'Gnostic Anarcho-punk Anti Pastoral Visions' – Of Mud & Flame: A Penda’s Fen Sourcebook (Strange Attractor)

'Icon' – The Migrant Waders anthology (Dunlin Press)

'The Fifth Continent: Romney Marsh' – Elsewhere: A Journal of Place #1

'Hollowshores' – Structo #13